GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| faction | a party or group (as within a government) that is often contentious or self-seeking : clique |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| ponderous | of very great weight |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |